Draft:Narciso J. Hidalgo

Education

Post-Doctoral Mellon Fellowship at Oberlin College Hispanic Studies Department. 173 W Lorain St, Oberlin, OH 44074.

Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature and Culture Minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies Dissertation title: Blacks, the Son, and Afrocuban Discourse. Director: Antonio Benítez Rojo College of Arts and Sciences Indiana University 107 South Indiana Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405.

M.A. in Hispanic Literature and Culture Magna Cum Laude. College of Arts and Sciences Washington University. One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130.

M.A. in Art History Magna Cum Laude. University of Havana Faculty of Arts and Letters San Lázaro y L, Havana, Cuba.

M.A. in Journalism (accreditation) Facultad de Ciencias de la Información Universidad Complutense Ave. Complutense 3, Madrid, 28040 Spain.

Independent Film Studies Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma Via Tuscolana, 1524, Rome, 00173. Academic Experience University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Culture College of Arts and Sciences 140 Seventh Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701. August 2007-August 2017:

From August 2007 until 2013 taught: Spanish Languages courses. From Summer 2013-Summer 2017. --World Languages and Cultures Minor Spanish and Latino Studies Minor SPN 2200 Spanish III, SPN 2201 Spanish IV, SPN 2241 Conversation, SPN 3300 Advance Spanish Grammar and Composition, SPN 3520 Spanish American Civilization. --World Languages and Cultures Major Spanish and Latin American Studies Concentration SPN 2240 Conversation, SPN 3300 Advance Grammar and Composition, SPN 3500 Spanish Civilization, SPN 3520 Spanish American Civilization, SPN 3391 Latin American Cinema. SPN 4470 Advanced Overseas Study.

Visiting Professor Middlebury College 14 Old Chapel Rd. Middlebury, VT 05753 Spanish Summer Program 2005. Taught two courses: Advance Spanish Language, and Contemporary Literature in Spain: The novels of Ana María Matute. Oberlin College Postdoctoral Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Culture College of Arts and Sciences 37 West College Street, Oberlin, OH 44074 August 2002- May 2004: Taught: The Anti-Slavery Discourse in Cuba, The Cuban Cinema and Noticiero ICAIC, Disillusionment and Bewilderment in Contemporary Latin American Theater.

University of South Carolina Assistant Professor of Spanish College of Arts and Sciences 471 University Parkway, Aiken, SC 29801 August 1999-May 2007: (From 2002 to 2004 as part of my postdoc I was at Oberlin College. When I finished the postdoc, I returned to University of South Carolina). Taught: Spanish S275, S317, S318 and S412: Advanced Conversation and Grammar. Survey of Latin American Civilization and Culture, Latinos: In Search of the Culture Through Their Cuisine. Summer Program in Mexico in coordination with Universidad Marista de Mérida, Yucatán “Introduction to the Spanish Traditions”.

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (former Yugoslavia) Visiting Lecturer Spring 1992, Taught: Seminar in Latín American Literature, Part I-Critical Theory: La posmodernidad en Hispanoamérica, Part II-Colonial Period: Cronistas de Indias, Part III-XX Century Novel: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Hasta no verte Jesús mío, La tía Julia y es escribidor, El jardín de al lado, La guaracha del Macho Camacho.

Honors and Fellowships

University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, College of Arts and Sciences, Internal Awards Program for Scholarly Activity, December 2012.

University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, College of Arts and Sciences, Award for professional traveling, March 2012.

USCA, summer 2006, The Honors, Awards, and Scholarships (HAS) for professional travel during 2005-2006.

Oberlin College, Postdoctoral Mellon Fellowship, Visiting Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies Department, 2002-2004.

Books Published:

Hidalgo, Narciso, J. Anthology. Legado de Culturas africanas en el Nuevo Mundo. Ediciones UNAULA. March 2020. ISBN: 978-958-5495-39-5

Hidalgo, Narciso J. José Lezama Lima. Universo poético. Anthology. Medellín: Ediciones UNAULA. Serie Cuadernos de Cultura Latinoamericana No. 11. 2016. ISBN: 978-958-8869-57-5

Hidalgo, Narciso J. Choteo. Irreverencia y humor en la cultura cubana. Bogotá: Siglo del Hombre Editores, 2012. ISBN: 978-958-665-212-4.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. and Rafael Reyes-Ruiz. (Editors) Bajo el sol naciente: Latinos en Japón. México: Editorial Fridaura, 2007. World Catalog with Access No. OCLC: 1025902763.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. (Guest Editor). Afro-Hispanic Review. Vanderbilt University. Vol. 26, Spring 2007. ISSN: 0278-8969. Special Issue: Monographic about the African presence in the New World. ISSN: 0278-8969

Hidalgo, Narciso J. Blacks, the son, and Afro-Cuban Discourse. Doctoral Thesis, 1999. (As a manuscript) in the Library of Congress, World Catalog.

Documentary Film: Miqui Moré, the life and vicissitudes of Beny Moré's brother.

Book in Progress:

From West Africa to the Americas: Religions of the African Diaspora. Anthology by Narciso J. Hidalgo and Ivor Miller.

Forthcoming:

“Columbus on the Threshold of the Spanish Renaissance”. (Approved for publishing by Routledge Encyclopedia, UK).

Articles

Hidalgo, Narciso J. "Lezama: El creador y su época." Otro Lunes. Revista Hispanoamericana de Cultura, (online peer-reviewed) Abril 2017, Año 11, No. 46, Madrid, Spain.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. "La Regla de Ochá en Cuba: Asimilación, oralidad y diferencias". Cultos Afroamericanos. Dioses, Orishas, Santería y Vudú. José Ignacio Urquijo ed. Extremadura, Spain: Ediciones Eunate, 2016, 315-330.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. "Reflexiones sobre la cultura cubana: ¿El negrismo moda o búsqueda de identidad e integración racial?" Afro-Hispanic Review. (Peer-reviewed), Spring 2015, 59-70.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. "Choteo en la narrativa caribeña más reciente." Otro Lunes. Revista Hispanoamericana de Cultura (online peer-reviewed) March 2015, Año 9, No. 36, Madrid, Spain.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. "Entrevista a Gerardo Fulleda León." Afro-Hispanic Review. (Peer-reviewed), Fall 2014, 153-162.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “Choteo. Identidad y cultura cubanas.” Afro Hispanic-Review. (Peer-reviewed), Spring 2013, 55-70. Hidalgo, Narciso J. “La nación entre imaginarios y trasformaciones.” Afro Hispanic-Review. (Peer-reviewed), Spring 2011, 117-125.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “Nicolás Guillén y la Generación del 27 en Cuba.” Otro Lunes. Revista Hispanoamericana de Cultura, (online Peer-reviewed) March 2011. Año 5, No. 17, Madrid, Spain.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “Cuba: el arte de la espera.” Cuba: Arte y Literatura en el Exilio, Anthology, Grace Piney, and James J. Pancrazio, (Editors), Valencia, Spain, 2011.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “Europa en América/América en Europa”. Otro Lunes. Revista Hispanoamericana de Cultura, (online peer-reviewed) Marzo 2010. Año 4, No. 12.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “Los Delmontinos y 'el problema negro' en Cuba.” Negritud. Revista de Estudios Afro-Latinoamericanos (Peer-reviewed) No. 2, Vol. 2 (2009): 110-121.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “El legado del ingenio azucarero en Cuba.” Otro Lunes. Revista Hispanoamericana de Cultura. (Online Peer-reviewed), June 2009. Año 3, No. 8.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “¿Hispanos o “Latinos” Qué somos?” La primera palabra. (Non-peer-reviewed) November 2008. Laprimerapalabraque.blogspot.com

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “De la intolerancia, la chabacanería y el despotismo: Indagación de lo cubano.” Otro Lunes. Revista Hispanoamericana de Cultura. (Online peer-reviewed), Sept. 2008. Año 2, No 4.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “Nelson Freires y la esencia mística de la cultura Yorubá.” Afro-Hispanic Review. (Peer-reviewed), Spring 2007, 159-165.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “Las creencias de origen africano en el Nuevo Mundo.” Afro-Hispanic Review. (Peer-reviewed), Spring 2007, 11-17.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “Latinos or Hispanos: What Are We?” USC Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies. (Non-peer-reviewed) www.sph.sc.edu/cli (Spring 2006).

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “La pigmentación de la piel y el discurso literario en Cuba.” Afro-Hispanic Review. (Peer-reviewed) Vol. 24, No. 2 (Fall 2005): 71-87.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “On Cuban Film.” Translated by Eduard S. Townsend. Hopscotch. (Peer-reviewed) Vol. 2. No. 4 (2001): 108-115.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “Arquitectura rítmica y Son en los Motivos de Son.” Monographic Review. (Peer-reviewed) Vol. XV (2000): 145-160.

Hidalgo, Narciso J. “Martí y Varela: dos momentos del pensamiento revolucionario cubano.” Cuadernos del Lazarillo. (Peer-reviewed) Salamanca, 9 (1995): 35-41.

Conferences and Lectures XII International Symposium Jorge Isaacs. Jornadas Afro-latinoamericanas, Comunicación y Cultura. Facultad de Humanidades. Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. Noviembre 24-30, 2022. Presentación del Archivo de Manuel Zapata Olivella en la universidad de Vanderbilt, de la revista Afro-Hispanic Review y de la antología Legado de culturas africanas en el Nuevo Mundo. 16ª. Fiesta del Libro y la Cultura. Septiembre 9-18 2022. Medellín, Colombia. Presentación de la antología Legado de culturas africanas en el Nuevo Mundo. Domingo 11 de Septiembre, 5:00pm. Auditorio: Aurita López, Jardín Botánico. XXX Congreso de la Asociación de Hispanistas Italianos. University of Torino, Italy. “Perspectivas: Estudios trasatlánticos, el canon literario y la reevaluación de la crítica en los estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe.” June 14-17, 2017. 10th Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies. (CRI) Florida International University. Miami. "Asimilación y oralidad en la Regla de Ochá en Cuba" February 26-28, 2015. 4th International Conference on Caribbean Studies. Marquette Univeristy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Crítica y humor en la narrativa cubana más reciente". November 6-8, 2014. Negritud’s 4th International Conference of Afro-Caribbean and Latin American Studies. Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. "Choteo. Irreverencia y humor en la cultura cubana". March 11-14, 2014. Birmingham University, United Kingdom, Department of Hispanic Studies at Birmingham University. Keynote-Speaker: “Choteo. El humor, la política y la cultura en Cuba.” November 13, 2013.

Negritud’s 3rd International Conference of Afro-Caribbean and Latin American Studies. San Juan, Puerto Rico. “El ‘afro-cubanismo’ y los intelectuales cubanos del primer tercio del siglo XX.” March 22-24, 2011. 2nd International Conference on Caribbean Studies (ICCS), Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. “Mañach, el Choteo y la crisis de la alta cultura en Cuba.” March 15-19, 2010. Negritud’s 2nd International Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. “Música y nación en Cuba.” March 11-13, 2010.

8th Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies. (CRI) Florida International University, Miami, Florida. “Atemporalidad e insilio en Cuba el arte de la espera.” February 11-13, 2010.

University of Missouri-Columbia. Conference on Afro-Romance Film and Culture. “Los Delmontinos y el doblez del discurso antiesclavista en Cuba.” April 3-4, 2008.

Vanderbilt University, Bishop Joseph Johnson Center, Nashville, Tennessee. “Afro-Cuban religions in the Americas.” November 2006.

Birmingham University, United Kingdom, Center of West African Studies, and the Department of Hispanic Studies at Birmingham University. “La nación entre imaginarios y transformaciones.” June 2005.

4th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies. (CRI) Florida International University, Miami, Florida. “Entre cubanos: Sociedades políticas y Nación.” October 2003.

ALARA Afro Latin American Research Association Annual Conference, Panama City, Panamá. “Deconstructing the Cuban Cultural Discourse.” August 2003.

Birmingham University, United Kingdom, Center of West African Studies, and the Department of Hispanic Studies at Birmingham University. Keynote-Speaker: “Cuban Cultural Discourse and The Voice of the Subaltern.” June 2003.

Courses Taught: As an Instructor in Spanish at Indiana University Courses taught from September 1992-1998: S275, S311, S312 and S412: Introduction to Spanish Culture. Course on Civilization and Culture. Advanced Grammar. Spanish for the Business World.

As Visiting Professor Middlebury College Spanish Summer Program 2005. Taught two courses: Advance Spanish Language, and Contemporary Literature in Spain: The novels of Ana María Matute.

As Visiting Lecturer at University of University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Seminar in Latin American Literature. Part I-Critical Theory: La posmodernidad en Hispanoamérica, Part II-Colonial Period: Cronistas de Indias, Part III-XX Century Novel.

As Postdoctoral Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Culture. The Anti-Slavery Discourse in Cuba. The Cuban Cinema and Noticiero ICAIC, Disillusionment and Bewilderment in Contemporary Latin American Theater.

As Assistant Professor at University of South Carolina. Taught: Spanish S275, S317, S318 and S412: Advanced Conversation and Grammar. Survey of Latin American Civilization and Culture, Latinos: In Search of the Culture Through Their Cuisine. Summer Program in Mexico in coordination with Universidad Marista de Mérida, Yucatán “Introduction to the Spanish Traditions”.

As Associate Professor at University of South Florida St. Petersburg. (1) Spanish Languages courses. --World Languages and Cultures Minor (2) Spanish and Latino Studies Minor SPN 2200 Spanish III, SPN 2201 Spanish IV, SPN 2241 Conversation, SPN 3300 Advance Spanish Grammar and Composition, SPN 3520 Spanish American Civilization. --World Languages and Cultures Major (3) Spanish and Latin American Studies Concentration SPN 2240 Conversation, SPN 3300 Advance Grammar and Composition, SPN 3500 Spanish Civilization, SPN 3520 Spanish American Civilization, SPN 3391 Latin American Cinema. SPN 4470 Advanced Overseas Study. Academic Service at the University Campus and Community.

Advisor for the Hispanic Club (2015-2017). Head of the Language Division at USFSP (2013-2015). Creation of USFSP Hispanic Club (2015). Member of the Spanish board at Salvador Dali Museum (2012-14). Elaboration, development, and presentation of the USFSP Major in Spanish in conjunction with Professor Martine Wagner (2014). Creation of the USFSP Spanish and French tutoring Program in conjunction with Professor Martine Wagner. (2014) Elaboration, development, and presentation of the USFSP Minor in Spanish in conjunction with Professor Martine Wagner (2013). Stablish the USFSP Spanish Program abroad in Mexico (2013).

As a Journalist and a Film Critic.

Covered numerous film festivals in Europe and the United States from 1983-1993 and worked for the newspaper Noticiero de las Americas and EFE (Spanish News Agency) Special services. Madrid, Spain. Second Saint Louis Film Festival, 1993. III, IV, and V, Miami Film Festival, 1988, 1989, 1990. Festival de Cine de Madrid IMAGFIC 1985. Festival de Cine de Valladolid, 1986. X Festival de Cine de Biarriz, 1985. X, XI, XII, XIV, XV Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva, 1985, 86, 88, and 89. (1986 and 1888 Member of the Jury of Critics). 36 edition Festival de Cine de San Sebastían, 1984. X Festival de Cine de Comedia, La Coruña, 1983.

Professional Affiliations

Member of the Academia de Historia de Cuba in the Exile (2019). Editor Special Collection: La mala memoria. Fondo Editorial UNAULA, Medellín, Colombia. (2019). The Spanish Florida Book Award 2013-2015 (Juror). Afro-Hispanic Review Literary Journal, Editorial Board, 2006-present. Revista de Estudios Afro-Latinoamericanos, Editorial Board, 2010-2014. ALARA (Afro-Latin American Research Association), Member. LASA, (Latin-American Studies Association), Member.